Break Reaction's Grip Register Vote Original CIO Political Action Committee Poster
- 1946
- Ben Shahn
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29 x 42 inches ~ (73 x 106 cm)$4,950
- Linen backed
Linen backing is the industry standard of conservation. Canvas is stretchered and a sheet of acid free barrier paper is laid down. The poster is then pasted to the acid free paper using an acid free paste. This process is fully reversible and gives support to the poster. A border of linen is left around the poster and can be used by a framer to mount the poster so that nothing touches the poster itself.
The price of this poster includes linen backing.
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"Break Reaction’s Grip, Register, Vote is one of many political posters Ben Shahn created in the 1940s to encourage the public to vote. As an avid supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was running for re-election, Shahn illustrates how Roosevelt’s campaign promises extended to both Black and white voters regardless of whether they lived in the North or the South. The poster focuses on two brown hands—a smaller one grasping a crumpled map of the US, and a second, larger hand forcefully gripping the smaller, thrusting it upwards. The abrupt gesture exudes a sense of urgency and is a passionate instruction to register to vote. In many of his posters from this period, Shahn, a social activist, showed Black and white union members together, fighting for union rights and better terms." - MOMA
